US Congress Persons in Iraq?

[ewagner]

There seems to be conflicting information as to exactly where the US Congressional types were and where they were supposed to be meeting in Bahgdad.

Anybody find a link (or two ) confirming their whereabouts or if they were scheduled to meet in the building that ws bombed?

[Ripley]

1. They were going to meet at the hotel.

Link from LBN:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=72954

[ewagner]

2. Do you think they were

the real target?

[Ilsa]

3. I was thinkng the same thing.

How public are the travel plans of the senators?

[ewagner]

4. My suspicion is

Saddam's boys have moles within all of the organizations there who can pass info along.

Further CNN had Kelly McCann on who said that obviously whoever did this had "eyes on the ground". This means that their travel schedule didn't have to be public. it was known locally.

[cjbuchanan]

5. I don't think these were Saddam's boys

I think this has nothing to do with Saddam. It might be some terrorist clett that has come in since we "liberated" the good folks of Iraq.

I really do not think Saddam is tied to this, but I could be very wrong. Time will tell.

[ewagner]

6. Can't disagree

At this point there is so much chaos that its hard to tell what the hell is going on. You are correct also in that only time will tell.

[Solomon]

7. The fact that they blew it up before any

senators got there is suspicious to me. Why waste such a tremendous opportunity if you are a terrorist?